Show threadNonilexMay 11

“Unfortunately, when governments or institutions are hiding the truth about what they’re up to or they’re playing fast & loose with certain regulations or they’re not imposing certain laws on different people,” Donovan said, “it is much easier to believe in a conspiracy against oneself than it is to believe that the system has become rotted.”

#TrumpLies #Trump #PerformancePolitics #BreadAndCircuses #ConspiracyTheories #USpol #media

Show threadNonilexMay 11

Jared Holt, a snr researcher at the online extremism tracking group Open Measures, said the statistics show how conspiratorial thinking is becoming more common in the US.
“Those poll numbers don’t terribly shock me. They’re definitely bleak,” Holt said. “Conspiracy theorizing has infected our body politic now to the point where it has become a gut reflex for a seemingly growing portion of the population.”

#TrumpLies #Trump #PerformancePolitics #BreadAndCircuses #ConspiracyTheories #USpol #media

Show threadNonilexMay 11

Joan Donovan, a Boston University professor who researches media manipulation, said the results are an indicator of the role of showmanship in #Trump’s presidency. “It just seems incredibly Hollywood to imagine that this is staged,” Donovan said of the correspondents’ dinner shooting. “The entire apparatus of the government has been turned into a reality TV show.”

#TrumpLies #PerformancePolitics #BreadAndCircuses #ConspiracyTheories #USpol #media

NonilexMay 11

This is what happens when you lie ALL THE TIME

Many Americans think #Trump #assassination attempts were fake

About 1 in 4 adults say the #WHCD shooting was staged, 1 in 3 Democrats said they believed the event was fake, & 1 in 8 Republicans also think it was staged, according to a survey published Monday by NewsGuard, a company that rates the reliability of online news outlets.

#TrumpLies #PerformancePolitics #BreadAndCircuses #ConspiracyTheories #USpol #media
https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2026/05/11/trump-assassinations-staged-conspiracy/

Many Americans think Trump assassination attempts were fake, survey finds

About 1 in 4 say the correspondents’ dinner shooting was staged, the poll found, including roughly a third of Democrats, as conspiracy theories spread widely online.

The Washington Post
Show threadNonilexJan 13

Indeed, on Tuesday morning #JimComer was planning to hold a “deposition” at the time that #Clinton had been summoned, with a chair left empty to illustrate his absence, & move quickly to hold the couple in #contempt should he fail to show up.

#law #Epstein #RevengePolitics #PerformancePolitics

ArtizanneJun 13, 2025

https://youtu.be/Bhil91-uRRk?feature=shared
#TrumpUTurn #migrants #PerformancePolitics #uspolitics
I wonder how many of those employees, migrants, business owners, farmers , whose businesses and lives were upended by that man's performance politics, will sue the Administration?

I hope all of them.

Lawrence: Trump surrenders on the central lie of his deportation campaign promises

YouTube
Show threadNonilexMar 4, 2025

#Trump has told advisers that he wants to announce the agreement in his address to #Congress Tuesday evening, 3 of the sources said, cautioning that the deal had yet to be signed & the situation could change.

#Ukraine #extortion #geopolitics #RevengePolitics #MafiaState #PerformancePolitics #USpol #StandWithUkraine

NonilexFeb 27, 2025

#Trump’s #immigration crackdown plays into misperceptions

When the first migrant detainees arrived at the US naval base in #Guantánamo Bay on #military planes, the Trump admin described them as hardened #criminals.

"It is holding those that are the worst of the worst," DHS Sec #KristiNoem told FauxNews….

#law #USpol #PerformancePolitics
https://www.npr.org/2025/02/27/nx-s1-5310556/trump-immigration-crackdown-misperceptions

Show threadNonilexJan 19, 2025

#Trump said he’ll stop Diversity, Equity & Inclusion efforts “all across the government”

Trump said he will repeal #Biden’s executive actions “within hours” of taking office.

Trump aides are considering putting a desk on the #inauguration stage tomorrow for him to start signing executive orders there.

#PerformancePolitics #USpol #law #democracy

NonilexJan 19, 2025

The Sunday night #Trump rally was his first such event in the city since the address at the Ellipse shortly before his supporters attacked the Capitol on #Jan6, 2021.

Trump promised everyone in the arena that they’ll be “very happy” tomorrow when they hear his decision on the Jan. 6 “hostages” who stormed the Capitol.

#PerformancePolitics #USpol #law #democracy